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Lubell refused to answer questions about his own and his brother's success in finding jobs since graduation. Both Lubells received their law degrees magna cum laude...
...that only a third of the students could give a satisfactory identification of the Reformation and Voltaire; only half knew much about Plato; and only four could properly identify Bismarck. Out of the 15, ten had never even heard of the Medicis, and seven knew nothing whatever about the Magna Carta...
...dean received his A.B. degree magna cum laude from Stanford in 1931, and four years later graduated from Harvard Medical School cum laude. He held a research fellowship in surgery while interning at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was appointed a Junior Fellow of Harvard's Society of Fellows...
...same way, the constant need to keep his dikes repaired against the attacks of the sea, and to fend off his many greedy enemies with unified effort, gave the Fleming a sense of community responsibility not yet shared by other Europeans. A hundred years before the signing of the Magna Carta in a tent on a British meadow, the burghers of Saint-Omer forced their feudal overlords to recognize the rights and privileges of individual citizens in that tiny Flemish town. Many other such charters were granted in Flanders during the Middle Ages and kept secure in strong boxes...
Besides supervising the office's employees in these routine tasks, Miss Jones personally carries out a job that is as valuable to the University, and difficult to execute, as it is unique and unpublicized. In the early part of each spring she carefully guesses what rank of honors-summa, magna, or cum-each one of that year's honors candidates will retain when he graduates...